IT’S A STAKES RACE DAILY DOUBLE FOR OUR RACING STABLE ON THURSDAY

HMDC and partners will get a chance for a big score in the late Double Mahoning Valley on Thursday. The 9th race is the $75,000 Joshua Radosevich Memorial for Accredited 2-year-olds going six-furlongs. Representing HMDC, Taste of Victory and TBC Racing will be represented by Rogues a Plotting.

Mike Rone has been “A Plotting” for a win in the Joshua Radosevich. It may be a case of “Rone’s a Plotting,” as trainer Mike Rone had this race circled on the calendar a while ago. “The Dominus runners get better as they mature and this guy came off the van ready to train.” The Mapleton-bred chestnut is a son of Dominus-Too Shy Shy-Distorted Humor. Rone waited until November 20 to unveil the gelding. Wearing blinkers and a shadow roll, Luis Rivera put him right on the lead where he remained until the eventual winner slipped through on the rail. The “Rogue” continued on evenly easily maintaining the second spot in the field of 11. It was a solid first-time effort and should set him up perfectly for Thursday’s stake.

The following 10th race will highlight the ever-consistent HMDC 4-year-old runner Countess Colette. The field $75,000 Bobby Bricker on Thursday will look a whole lot like the Leona’s Reward Stake on November 15 at Mahoning Valley, as 8 of the 10 runners on Thursday competed in that race! As you may recall, Countess Colette spent most of the race in another zip code from the field, trailing by as many as 16 lengths at the half-mile marker in the 1 mile 70 yard stake (same distance as the Bricker). Countess Colette lost more ground than the Sioux Indians in the Great Plains around the turn and in the words of the Daily Racing Form, “Countess Colette put in a furious rally down the stretch and just missed.”

Trainer Megan Fadlovich will be making a jock change to a relatively new face in the area–Alexander Crispin. Crispin graduated from Puerto Rico’s famed Escuela Vocacional Hipica in December 2019 and made his pro debut at Hipodromo Camarero. After coming to the U.S. he debuted on March 7, 2020 at Turfway Park, went on to win the title at Laurel Park and was voted the Eclipse Award as the nation’s leading apprentice. The accredited Countess Colette is a Mapleton-bred by Medal Count-Mobil Bonnet-Mobil and will break from post position 9. So, for those of you playing at home – that’s a 2-9 late daily double – see you at the cashier’s window!

On Thursday, Countess Colette hopes to improve on her second-place finish in the Bobby Bricker last season.)